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United Nation Development Programme - Micro-Capital Grant

Sustainable Livelihoods and Protected Area Planning in PNG

Indicative Funding

$204,000 over 2 years

Summary

The Nakanai Ranges have been identified as a Key "Biodiversity Area due to their high density of endemic and range-restricted species of high conservation concern due to pressures of industrial logging and oil palm development. We aim to engage local communities in stewardship of world heritage through tangible conservation and livelihood benefits, acknowledging the causal relationship between heritage, local people and their well-being. Protection of primary rainforest in Nakanai will enable the continued flow of ecosystem services, such as the provision of clean water and the protection of soil resources.

Australian Government - Attorney-Generals Department - Consultancy

Development of Mid-Career Native Title Anthropologists

Indicative Funding

$47,240 over 2 years

Summary

The Grant is to fund four workshops to be held over 5 consecutive days (with a Field Trip on the third day) aimed specifically at mid-career anthropologists who are concerned with the increasing shift in Native Title practice, from preparing native title claims to concluding them. The workshops (6 hours each of face-to-face contact) will also provide technical training in establishing and running post-determination institutions and incorporated groups. The workshops will provide targeted training for mid-career anthropologists and mentoring opportunities with senior anthropologists. Workshops 2, 3 and 4 will be run collaboratively in conjunction with the Centre for Native Title Anthropology (CNTA), ANU.

Australian Research Council - Linkage - Projects

The Nakanai Caves Cultural Heritage Project

Indicative Funding

$228,000 over 4 years, in partnership with Archaeloogical & Heritage Management Solutions ($68,100 over 3 yrs)

Summary

This project will document and integrate the natural and cultural values of the Nakanai Caves in East New
Britain, Papua New Guinea, in preparation for a cultural landscape World Heritage nomination. Our novel
methodology incorporates community knowledge with archaeological and anthropological evidence to link
natural and cultural values and define the landscape from local perspectives. Local input into the research
will be prioritised. By emphasizing local participation and management of World Heritage listing processes
we address an identified gap in World Heritage methodologies. Our approach allows for a subtle, nuanced
definition of cultural landscapes under the World Heritage Convention.

Australian Research Council - Discovery - Projects

Planning for later life: An ethnographic analysis of ageing among Transnational Papua New Guineans

Indicative Funding

$236,510 over 3 years

Summary

This project addresses the global problem of ageing populations by looking at how transnational Papua New Guinean families plan for old age. We explore how Papua New Guineans resident in North Queensland make specific decisions about later life that balance the value of relations with kin, friends, neighbours while also dealing with the social services provided by the state and the market. We describe the tensions that emerge in transnational decision making concerning old age. The resulting knowledge of how Papua New Guineans prepare for old age will help to critically inform policies concerning the wellbeing of people engaged with ageing.

Investigators

Rosita Henry and Michael Wood in collaboration with Karen Sykes
(College of Arts, Society & Education and University of Manchester)

Keywords

Ageing; Papua New Guinea; Migrants

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or
by students who have completed their studies within the past
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Current

A Shared History Forgotten: Aboriginal Prospectors and Miners of Tropical Queensland, From Pre-Contract Times to ca.1950.
(PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)

Corporate Mining and Petroleum Engagement with Local Indigenous Communities in Northern Australia and Papua New Guinea
(PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)

Manifestations of the Ego: Egoism in the Modernist Manifesto
(PhD , Advisor Mentor)

Kuku Yalanji Artefacts and Traditional Knowledge in the Past and the Present
(PhD , Primary Advisor)

Moral Reasoning, Death and the Clinic: The Ethics of End-of-Life Decisions
(PhD , Primary Advisor)